Rocket.Chat.Apps-engine
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Visualization in tab bar
The right hand side panel is the place in Rocket.Chat where additional information for the context of the current conversation are being displayed (e. g. who are the current members, what are the pinned messages and so on). Informative Apps should be able to claim space in there.
For a better illustration, here's an "app" which we provide in our custom fork:

The app detects via NLP what the conversation is currently about and performs implicit search. As of today, we implemented this widget independent of Rocket.Chat: It's a jQuery based UI which simply attaches to a DOM node provided as a tab and then interacts via DDP with Rocket.Chat.
Personally, I believe that this would be an option for most desktop apps. Would providing an (empty) tab be a first step in the apps as well?
This feature is present in our short term roadmap